Before the redesign, Chron.com had a link for easy access to corrections. The new Chron.com has no such link and no set place for corrections.
Maybe the Chron.com web developers will see fit to add a link to corrections at some point. Until then, we’ll post a link to them when they appear, since they’re so hard to find.
Here are the Corrections that appear today.
Interestingly, the Chronicle prints a major correction to an AP story:
In a Nov. 26 story on Page D3 of the Business section about Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, the Associated Press reported erroneously that .50-caliber rifles were used to penetrate the armor of Iraqi tanks from a mile away during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Such rifles were used against Iraqi armored personnel carriers, but military experts say they could not penetrate tank armor from that distance.
The story also said company founder Ronnie Barrett started tinkering with the .50-caliber Browning Machine Gun in the early 1980s. A company spokesman said Barrett took photos of one such gun, but then built his own rifle.The story also quoted a criminal justice scholar who said the rifle wasn’t useful for hunting because it would destroy game meat — a claim Barrett Firearms disputes. Bryce Towsley, a Vermont-based gun writer, said that when the .50-caliber rifle is used with the proper bullet, it would not destroy the meat.
In the past, the newspaper has, at times, declined to correct AP errors.
